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Something Kind of Hinky in LA and It's Not Just Google Satellite Views UPDATE

Something Kind of Hinky in LA and It's Not Just Google Satellite Views UPDATE

Beege Welborn2:40 PM | May 18, 2026

_AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File_

There appears to be a concerted effort on the part of Los Angeles journalists, their progressive journalisming friends, and what seems to be Google maps (dare I even question their neutrality) to make the Los Angeles fires and specifically the all-consuming Pacific Palisades conflagration..._go away_.

In fact, in some instances, it's almost as if they never happened.

I wonder why?

🚨🔥🚨GO! GO !!GO!!! VOTE PRATT FOR MAYOR!!! SAVE LOS ANGELES!!! pic.twitter.com/MirT4i9Rqr — 🇺🇲🔥MAGABGreatGenes🔥🇺🇲 (@magab2023) May 18, 2026

Well, yeah. That could be a big reason - they're worried.

They should be.

Lake Balboa resident Jose Meraz is looking for a mayor who will turn L.A. around, cleaning up streets that he says are “filled with garbage.” Schoolteacher Tracey Schroeder, a Republican candidate for state Assembly, is unhappy about crime, open-air drug use and the slow rebuilding effort in the wake of the Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes. Greg Whitley, a resident of Reseda, said he’s frustrated with homelessness and the influx of what he called “criminal illegal aliens.” “I live with the Spanish community. Great people,” he said. “But these illegals that come here for criminal reasons, they’re making them look bad, and they don’t like it.” _All three showed up outside a five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks on Saturday, looking to speak with reality TV personality Spencer Pratt, now waging an insurgent campaign for Los Angeles mayor in the June 2 election._

The first knock on Pratt came from TMZ's skeevey Harvey Levin, and his Lurch-like sidekick in what was, I guess, supposed to be a bombshell exposé.

🚨 UPDATE: We asked Spencer if he has ever lived in the trailer, and he said no, adding, "I have never told anyone I lived there." However, in the campaign ad, he says squarely, "This is where I live" as he stood in front of the trailer. pic.twitter.com/3oSoskJqgB — TMZ (@TMZ) May 13, 2026

Many goose-screaming-_WHAT-HAPPENED-TO-SPENCER'S-HOUSE_-chasing-morons memes later, Levin seems to have crawled down from the ill-advised attack on a man who doesn't live where he lived because his house burned down, and his trailer at long last got its hook-ups last week, after months of waiting. He's now reduced to doing these sad sort of CYA confessionals after getting his ass handed to him - '_Well, I never really liked Karen Bass, and it sucks around here._' Not just once by a direct rebuttal to Levin's face from Pratt.

But now again, in a quick little rap video mocking the entire episode.

Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down pic.twitter.com/Zes4VRdZxX — Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 18, 2026

Pratt does not let any grass grow under his feet, thinking about how to respond.

Sadly for progressives, they're what General Honoré once coined as '_Stuck on stupid_.' Instead of learning from TMZ's horrific misstep targeting a fire victim for not actually living in his non-existent home, they're running with it.

Pratt had a conversation with Adam Corolla, where he was honest and said that if Bass or Nithya Raman won the mayoral race, he foresaw no way he could continue to live in the ongoing wreckage that was Los Angeles, and he would move his family away.

Common sense is all that's required to know how politicians are screwing taxpayers. Enough people don't care and keep voting with "their team" enabling perpetual graft. Spencer Pratt and Adam Corolla laying down simple facts of how we are getting fleeced: pic.twitter.com/loJNhRKwF2 — Brian Kennedy (@Brian_Kennedy) May 16, 2026

To my point about progressive journalists, the Xweet belowbelongs to one Marlow Stern, who is the chief correspondent for Variety and, even worse, a teacher at Columbia University.

A New Yorker.

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